Someone's trying to follow me and my mom home, Jesus Christ this is terrifying

Ok, just pulled into a fire station.

Word of advice, if someone tries to flag you down on a highway, pointing to the back of your car, there isn’t anything wrong. They want to kill you. Never stop for them.

They may try to pin you in a lane on the highway. They won’t let you get ahead of them, they will try to prevent you from getting behind them. Fuck traffic laws. Gun it, throw on your brakes, honk your horn and do not stop. get away from them at all costs. Don’t go home, go to the police or go to a fire station. Explain what happened and have them look over ur car.

Reblog this around. Seems like common sense, but also not something that can happen to everyone.

I was on the I-5 in Washington State. The van was white, with blacked out windows. There was graffiti or something on the right side of the van, but I was too scared to read it.

Everyone please be safe, if you are in the Puyallup or Tacoma area, please be even more careful.

If you need to pull over, if possible, take the nearest exit and park somewhere well lit with people around. Gas stations, other 24/7 locations.

If a cop’s got their lights on and are trying to pull you over, put your hazards on, pull to the right lane, and slowly drive somewhere public. You can use your cell to call 911, confirm it’s really a cop behind you, reassure the operator you’re just pulling over somewhere safe because you don’t trust the shoulder of the highway etc.

This happened to my mom in DC in the 70's. A strange man was watching her pump gas at the station and she noticed him driving behind her afterwards. She experimented to be sure he was following her. She made a random right and then left turn and he kept up. So, when she got to her homestreet she kept driving and desperately looked for a gas station where she was friendly with the guys there. A group a black guys she knew in passing worked there. Well, once she got there, she said she hopped out of the care in a panic and told them what was happening... So at least three of them went out front and yelled "HEY, MAN!" and the guy sped off. But it's not over yet. They told my mom to hang out for awhile because the man could still be lurking. Since one of them would be getting off soon and would follow to make sure (the knew his make and model and the plates). Sure enough... The man WAS waiting a little ways down the road at a grocery store to start following again... Dude honked a cut a fuss and again he sped off. My mom went to the police station afterwards (the gas station dud vouched for her and gave a description of the guy). So BOTH cars followed my mom home and the station sent a care out to watch her apartment that night. My mom never saw that guy that was following her again, but she is certain he was determined to do her harm at her apartment.

Guys, if a car follows you:

DO NOT GO HOME!

GO TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION/FIRE STATION!

This has been happening a lot more recently in the Seattle/Tacoma area

If you can't get to one of these, get your ass to a liquor store. Thanks to robbery and drunk folks, people who work at liquor stores know exactly how to put the place on lockdown and the cops will get there damn fast if they're called.

My mom was followed once, and luckily she was able to get rid of the guy by gunning it at a red light. (Like the light was ab to turn red, or just turned red)

Alternatively

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You're only as helpless as you choose to be

Still, it’s good to offer advice to those who happen to be unarmed for whatever reason.

BlackLivesMatter: [spends 6 years escalating racial tensions] BlackLivesMatter: [riots, endorses riots, or turns a blind eye to riots which kill black people] BlackLivesMatter: You know what we need? De-escalation specialists.

To be fair, its mostly been the groups co-opting BLM like antifa

I love how you people think “antifa” is an organization. I fucking wish.

So the flags, meetings, websites, and merch are just…what? 

Very consistent printing errors?

Antifa is short for antifascist. Anyone who is resisting fascism is antifa. If you have a problem with that, it says a lot about you.

People STILL are trying to use the “iS sHuRt 4 aNtEfAxIst!” argument?

Y'all make it pretty easy to tell who the good guys and bad guys are when you openly oppose black people who stand up to racist cops. Eat multiple bags of dicks.

no, we were on board for that part.

was David Dorn a racist cop?  was that black guy who spent his life savings to open the sports bar that got looted a racist cop?  was the billions’ worth of buildings that got burned down in Minneapolis racist cops?

no; you lost us when you showed us it wasn’t actually about the racism and you just wanted an excuse to destroy things.

The people who purposefully escalated what were originally peaceful protests with war crimes were very much racist cops.

All cops are bastards.

>what were originally peaceful protests

BLM rioted from the year it began. Over Mike Brown. There were anti-cop terrorist attacks. One in NYC, one in Dallas, and Korryn Gaines tried one.

>with war crimes

Tear gas is only a war crime if used in a war.

I certainly don’t want to think BLM are (para)military enemy combatants, do you?

If tear gas is a war crime, so is pepper spray.

Interesting how he looked at 2018 for Musk, and not 2021, when Musk claims he paid 11 billion. The highest individual tax bill in US history, he said.

They always like to imply that these corporations just cheated or did something illegal, rather than point out that said corporations used the system to their advantage.

Of course. Because then they’d have to explain why they want that same “broken” system to have even more power.

The system was specifically made to create winners and losers like this, but they still think giving it just a bit more power will make it work for the poor… This time. No, next time for sure. Wait, just one more time. This time for sure!

It’s also interesting how ‘the rich’ never seems to include politicans.

But it’s not like rich politicians would ever encourage this nonsense to give themselves more power, right?

excluding guns, what's y'alls favorite weapons?

Spear and shield, sword to fall back on. Lot of versatility with the right kind of spear and a shield has the obvious benefit of blocking as well as being useful for beating, bashing, and bludgeoning. Sword is good for if the spear breaks/gets stuck.

Comically Big hammer

I'm with the large hammer crowd or also axes 🪓

Glass daggers

Rapier.

Swift, precise, light.

A gentleman’s weapon.

That last bit isn’t accurate and it’s a fairly common right wing justification of why Star Trek’s utopia is unatainable. Humanity didn’t invent replicators and become a utopia, humanity made first contact and gained enough perspective to try and get its shit together - and centuries later invented the replicator because it HAD.

Replicators wouldn’t just fix all our problems, because resource shortage isn’t the issue. Resource HOARDING is the issue. A small percentage of people taking more than everyone else is the problem - and replicators wouldn’t solve that, cuz the rich people would just hoard those too.

Others have already made that first point in the notes. I included it because I thought it was funny.

The fact that you think “rich people hoarding is the problem” kind of discounts you from any discussion on economics.

Especially when the current economics crisis was caused, quite heavily, by government lockdowns hindering production and basic economic activity for a year and change, and another government starting a war, which lead to more government sanctions, that increase the price of gas, and by extension everything that depends on gas.

Which is literally everything.

You just pulled your pants down and showed your whole ass, so I don’t particularly feel the need to defend myself to you.

“I’m totally winning this argument, even though I can’t actually come up with a real criticism of your point or defend my NPC argument, which is why I have to block you on your own post so I can get the last word”

Sure, Jan.

Just taking a casual glance over their blog…and, yeah…they strike me as the kind of person who likely gets high off their own fumes, and can’t tolerate for even one femtosecond that they might be wrong about something.

Like, it took less than one scroll of the mousewheel to find a “DA EBIL RIGHT WING” style post. Brainrot and codswallop abounds.

not exactly a shock

Inspiration struck me like a brick to the skull

I wanna bring this guy to the present and see how fast he tries to kill himself

Please don’t compare my years of experience and hours of learning in a classroom to someone making mac & cheese. Making a meal and educating someone are completely different things, and this comparison just shows the lack of respect that this country has for educators.

Nobody would compare an exquisitely prepared seven course meal to my bowl of easy Mac and say they are of equal quality. Yet individuals with no training in the content or in teaching claim to be qualified teachers, and just as good as the teachers in the classroom who have worked their asses off for years developing their craft and working on ways to help our students succeed.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Wild that a bunch of “untrained” parents are better at their jobs than teachers with a cute participation award from the state, it’s like you guys suck hard at your jobs or something

Turns out you’re the bowl of easy Mac, whoops

You know what the best thing about it all? Most teachers aren’t absolute scum. They mean well. They truly do. And despite that, they are still bad at their jobs and routinely harm children’s mental health and well-being. In some cases, this is “Just Following Orders” from the education department, but in most cases, it’s just plain old apathy from years of their job with nothing to really show from it. It’s not like there’s a whole lot of career momentum when the best you can hope for is from teacher to (let’s not mince words) glorified administrator better known as a principle, having even less impact in their role.

And that isn’t even touching the teachers unions, or the hard fact that their “years of developing their craft” has routinely resulted in TERRIBLE policy for education, or have we all forgotten about Common Core?

Are there good teachers out there? Sure. But every single one has their hands tied by bureaucracy and are complicit with the abuse of children. No teacher is free from this reality and if they say they are, they are either incredibly stupid to be that oblivious (and therefore shouldn’t be teaching anyone anything) or they are directly involved in the abuse.

>Making a meal and educating someone are completely different things,

Yes, they are.

They’re also things literally anyone can do, whether they meet an arbitrary standard or not.

>and this comparison just shows the lack of respect that this country has for educators.

I love your snuck premise that only people with Proper Qualifications™ are Real Educators™. You know homeschooling still has to meet standards, right?

>Nobody would compare an exquisitely prepared seven course meal to my bowl of easy Mac and say they are of equal quality.

This discussion wasn’t really about the quality of the end product.

It’s about someone trying to stereotype homeschool teachers as bigoted, incompetent right-wingers, using quality as a fig leaf.

Also, public schools are notoriously bad at educating kids.

> Yet individuals with no training in the content or in teaching claim to be qualified teachers, and just as good as the teachers in the classroom who have worked their asses off for years developing their craft and working on ways to help our students succeed.

And how exactly would you prove them wrong? Because you…you haven’t actually done that. You haven’t proven the homeschoolers can’t work hard. Sometimes they literally are “qualified” teachers.

You’ve just stamped your feet and gone “no, us real teachers are BETTER!”

And I say this as someone whose parents were both educators.